I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By Me" was really.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.

My stories are character driven.